Ad-Dhuha

Ad - Duha (Arabic الضحى, DMG Ad- Duha, The Bright and Morning ' ) is the name of the 93rd sura of the Koran. It consists of 11 verses, plus the basmala and was proclaimed in Mecca. The name of the sura is taken from the first verse.

Temporal classification

Theodor Nöldeke one ad - Duha in his chronology of the Qur'an to the early Meccan suras and continues its promulgation at slightly later than the very similar sura 94, which he is highly in line with traditional Muslim Chronologisierungsversuchen, which are also among the earliest Surat revelations count. Harris Birkeland put them together with the suras 94, 108, and 105 and 106 at the beginning of the Qur'anic Text genesis. Rudi Paret disputed this view very clearly, because he went out on the basis of the text of finding a synchronicity with other early suras. Contrast, has been taken over by Angelika Neuwirth Birkeland's opinion based on their literary and philological studies essentially. Nicolai Sinai confirmed the content and chronological context of the suras 93, 94 and 103 as a " consolation Suren ", puts it, however, significantly more time later than the Suras 105 and 106 because they put the dialogue between God and Herald to the center, while in the suras 105 and 106, the confrontation with the Quraysh in the foreground would be.

Original text, transcription and translation

1 When morning

2 and at night, when everything is ( it w. ) still!

3 Your Lord has not given you a farewell and abhors ( you) not.

4 And the Hereafter is better for you. Than the present

5 Verily thy Lord will you ( one day so abundant ) indicate that you will be satisfied.

6 ( However, even in this life, he has proven to you grace. ) Did he not find you an orphan and ( you) granted admission,

7 found you on the wrong path and guided,

8 and found thee in need and made ​​them rich?

9 Against the orphan therefore thou shalt not be violent,

10 and the beggar thou shalt not approach.

11 But tell ( your countrymen again and again ) by the grace of your Lord!

Content and Interpretation

The sura begins with the early Meccan suras fairly typical contrastive oath passage. From the third verse, fades into a direct address of the exemplary stationary for the pious faithful prophetic herald. Style and content, is the passage of the biblical text places the psalm close, and describes how the elimination of an earthly defect by divine intervention, which eventually culminates in a resultant of gratitude to the benevolence of God ethos from the ninth verse: Just as God the righteous from the not delivered, this now should not harass even others in need, but give them the divine grace. Thus, the sura of content divided into three parts and is therefore quite complex, despite its brevity.

Interpreters tend in the interpretation of the Qur'an to biografistischen approaches: Already in the early Islamic interpretations of the Qur'an is a revelation occasion the oppression of the prophet called by his opponents in Mecca; Surah was sent down to comfort him and to award courage. Similarly, about the seventh verse of Rudi Paret as a reference to the task of pagan faith was counted in favor of a new knowledge of God by Muhammad himself. Hartmut Bobzin however, rejects both these biografistische interpretation as well as the historicist understanding of the Qur'an as a " consolation speech" and sees them rather as commonly held call for justice against those who are weaker.

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